skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people made more money it wouldn’t help

You have 100 houses and 200 people wanting to live there. They out of each other until they run out of money

Double the wages and it just means they can bid more, and those already owning the houses have more value in their assets.

You either need to reduce demand or increase supply.
I've been using immutable distros for a couple years right now (Silverblue and openSuse MicroOS/Aeon now), and all I can say is they're much, much better than "normal" distros.

Containerized apps are nice, containers for development is nice, but you can have those in "normal" distros with a lil work setting things up.

The real killer feature is you can have a bleeding edge system with zero fear of breakage.
> dark matter and dark energy have always been considered placeholders of sorts

It's not a placeholder. We can measure how fast galaxies rotate, run some simulations with the current law of physics and calculate how much mass they have. Also etimate how much mass we can see. They are different values!

Dark matter is the hypotesys that thae different is caused by some mass instead of an error in the laws, or the measurements or something. There are a few hypotesis about what the dark matter actualy is, and they are very different and nonegives a good answer.

We can compare the missing mass of calculated with the rotation and other calculations like gravitational lensing and backgroung radiation. IIRC all the these different methods to calculate the ammount of dark matter sorta agree, so people working in the area are quite convincing this is the solution to the problem.

> "we don’t know what’s happening here"

That's more general. It may mean that equations are wrong. Some people proposed corrections to the equations, but all the proposal so far don't solve the problem. (For example, MOND needs use a new constant a0, but to get the correct result in each galaxy we need a different vaule of a0 instead of a single one for all the universe.)
For me the "energy gain" / "energy drain" question depends MASSIVELY on who I happen to be spending time with. So much so that recently I'm doubting if I even am an introvert. With the right people it's all good.
Social skills, full stop.

I want to learn hosting, making and maintaining friendships, fluid small talk with strangers, and becoming magnetic.
The poster above me explained to me that it's not like that?
Nothing of value follows from opening the floor to input from broader sections of the populace on subjects that require expertise for all of the same reasons a treatise on plumbing is not meaningfully improved by adding a chapter on floral arrangement. What follows is a torrent of poorly informed takes and in-group mythology which in turn makes identifying high quality information on the subject increasingly difficult. In extreme cases the only individuals who can consistently and accurately identify valuable information in the resulting sea of dross are the very experts that should be the sole sources of information on the topic in question.
MariaDB explicitly checks if the port is non-zero before listening on a TCP socket:

https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/ae998c22b2ce4f1023a6c...

> if (mysqld_port)

> activate_tcp_port(mysqld_port, &listen_sockets, false);

if (mysqld_port) means "if mysqld_port is different from 0"

This seems to be at least in MariaDB 5.5 (year 2012)
I recently came across a VS Code extension that does pretty much what you're looking for -

> Out-of-Code Insights is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows you to add annotations, notes, and comments without modifying your source files.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JacquesG...

GitHub:

https://github.com/JacquesGariepy/out-of-code-insights/
Yeah and clone everything before even touching (the copy) too.
Yup, I've never bought into the intro/extrovert spectrum because it doesn't really seem to cover some pretty common cases.
That's a very long post to say "I don't understand extraversion/introversion"
Awesome! Would you hike by yourself?

That’s what’s holding me back. Even if I get past the loneliness aspect I start freaking myself out about bears and moose.
SYSTAT UNHAPPY MACNAM
Trying to reason about postgres is somewhat of an enigma when you are forced to do it; generally the only reason as a programmer you have to is because something went wrong, and then the mindset is a mix of nervousness and panic; then incredulity at some of the seemingly unintuitive behaviors. I suspect this might be true of any large, complex system at the edges.
Good, we need more competitors in this space. I'm using Lemon Squeezy and okay with it, but the fees are too high. There's also Polar that is new around the block. Worth checking out.
This is me as well. For me it's not "socializing = energy drain" or the opposite. It's more about situations. In most situations I find talking with people, being in crowds, etc to be draining. But plop me into what is a relatively small list of "right circumstances" and it's the exact opposite.
so true.

and all those things are another OS which you have zero visibility or control, but have to manage just like a production server. there's probably tons of ipmi backdoors all over the place and nobody cares much besides limiting routing to some lan.
"If the government were .. to print money to pay for kids' education"

Let me cut your hypothetical right there to simplify and ignore the rest. It does, government prints money to pay, among other things for education.

Even in ordinary money creation, yes the government borrows money, but it borrows it to fund state expenses like schools. They are paying interest which they just printed to fund these operations.

Then exceptionally, (if they are ever insolvent or need money), they directly create money. 2008 crisis, 2021 covid crisis, wars.

I don't understand how you simultaneously believe that the government prints money, but doesn't fund government expenses with printed money. Do they just print money to devalue savings and spite you?
For those like me, who have been using a computer for 25-30 years, we have witnessed most things, like document editing, viewing, spreadsheets, file management etc. going from unbearably slow (although even in the mid 1990s that was debatable), to basically so fast that performance does not matter any more, which has been reached at some point in the past 15 years and all extra resources go towards inefficiency or pointless features. At this point, I'd argue games have also reached this threshold.

Often I look at modern games, and feel like I'd happily trade marginally worse graphics for a game that runs well on my mid-range PC. I tried the Dead Space remake, for example, and it ran so bad on my PC that I immediately uninstalled it and replayed the original, and the difference in quality wasn't huge, despite the fact the original ran better on a PC that has about 1/20th the computing resources.
Can't tell if it supports redstone (which I would consider basic functionality in a Minecraft server) - isn't called out in the README and the code only makes mention of redstone torches (which also function as a light source).
It actually works quite well, if you use WSL.

Ruby itself works okay on bare-metal Windows, but virtually guaranteed any decent size Rails project will use some native gem that's a nightmare to get to build on Windows.
Graphene at 20: Is the 'miracle' material living up to the hype?
Oh good! I walk about that every day. By now I'll live to be 1000!
Okay, I’ll bite. Who does this matter to, and why?
Because they lose more if they just stick it in a box under the bed.
I can get behind this idea!
You’re absolutely right — not sure how I misinterpreted that so badly.
If you only use standard Markdown. But the advocacy often focuses on DataView and a thousand other features that are simply not available without Obsidian.
I've been looking for a music server to stream music from my local NAS to our Alexa Echo speakers. Tried Plex, and I can't get it and Alexa to play nice. Are any of these able to integrate with Alexa speakers????
Neat, I was looking for something like that from some time.
Rather than cluttering up the threads with meta-commentary you can email hn@ycombinator.com.
just goes to show again how LTT and LMG are scummy people
Or don't pay for it and you get even a better treatment with hiding ads (SponsorBlock). the free solution is way better than the paid one if we are talking about Youtube.
I didn't know YC does Government, Healthcare, Industrials, Real Estate and Construction. All these are great sectors and never made the headline.
I have been using Wipr v2, which achieves a 100% block rate in tests. In comparison, uBlock Origin (uBO) typically reaches 98–99% on the same tests.

The fact that Chrome has nerfed ad blockers prompted me to switch. I have used Chrome consistently since its early alpha versions around 2008.

However, ad blockers are absolutely essential to me. The web is not safe without them.
Is there a way to get the key points of this interesting topic without having to watch a 23 minute video?
Looks cool, but as I have been on this knowledge management / productivity journey like everybody. Here are my findings:

If you are reasonably comfortable with computers / Unix.

- You need to first rely on a directory structures, filenames, plaintext, lists and maybe markdown. Stick with a "File over app", Unix approach.

- Try to sort things with universal concepts: locations, things, people, events, metrics, howtos. A bit like the 5Ws approach.

- Leverage good Unix tools: unix commands, make/justfiles, (rip)grep, git, fzf, etc.

- Do not try to solve the problem through the Web. Because you will end up trying to solve web problems instead of basic knowledge management and productivity issues.

- The smartphone/touchscreen is a major problem, but as with the Web do not try to solve it. Use your file manager or even fzf in termux can be adapted to be reasonably usable on a touchscreen.

Something I have been wondering about is the "backlink" feature. It would be cool to link items/notes together through references.
What I would be looking for is a Unix tools that can scan my text files for references to other files in the hierarchy.
Given the choice of 15+ years in maximum security US prison or death, id unequivocally choose death.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia in my 40s. It's helped me understand why I struggle with certain tasks. Overall having a label has been a net positive.

I'm hesitant to share my diagnosis with colleagues. I've been able to develop coping mechanisms and I feel like it doesn't impact my day-to-day. I don't want to cause disruption for those around me. I do have a friend with much more severe dyslexia and she does get the help she needs to be productive.

I wish we could discuss these labels at work without baggage. It's all about consideration. Forcing everyone around you to change their behaviour around you to make yourself feel more comfortable is not being considerate. On the flip side enforcing strict working policies that prevent people from participating in the workplace is also not considerate.
It just occurred to me that perhaps this is where AI might prove useful. Functions could have some kind of annotation that triggers AI
to analyze the function and explain it plain language when you do something like hover over the function name in the IDE, or, you can have a prompt where you can interact with that piece of code and ask it questions. Obviously this would mean developer-written comments would be less likely to make it into the commit history, but it might be better than nothing, especially in older codebases where the original developer(s) are long gone. Maybe this already exists, but I’m too lazy to research that right now.
and hdmi in! but no mainline kernel support, so, meh.
Hands on: Microsoft is building an AI Shell for Windows 11 command line
Seems the theme going into the new year might just be self hosting things... This and this https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan are both on the front page of HN
I wish you luck, your description is unfortunately very vague in the cybersec topic. There will probably hundreds of articles like the one you are specifically looking for and most of them will be published in dark-themed personal blogs written either by an Indian guy or an AI.
I thought at first this was discussing why early CD-ROM devices had a flimsy tray that came out and held the disk vs. just being able to push the CD into a slot and have it automatically pulled in like on modern devices.
Nice! I presume you mean Ashtanga Yoga as given in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Edwin Bryant's translation based on traditional commentaries is a must read. One interesting old classic on psychological application is Geraldine Coster's Yoga And Western Psychology : A Comparison - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.238168/page/n3...

You might also find this previous comment of mine useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322
Like so many things, introversion can now be both medicalized as a disorder and celebrated as a lifestyle choice. This allows some people to pick whichever is psychologically soothing to them at the moment and use it to justify a lack of effort, as if socializing were not a skill that many people actually have to work on.
The government is the cause of most of the things people complain about:

- high housing — zoning and government mortgages, low interest, etc

- high student debt — guaranteed loans, unnecessary pushing of college to the detriment of trade schools,etc

The list goes on. Sadly people are in denial and want more intervention.
Basically that it's an old and largely discredited notion that the centuries directly following the fall of Rome Europe was plunged into a period of regression and backsliding. It's an ambiguous term in that it can mean that the times themselves were "dark" as in grim and bad, or that the records from that time are few, and therefore visibility in the historical record is "dark" or lacking.
I think this is the same concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome
A very important "Life Skill". A study of Philosophy and the conscious development of appropriate positive mental attitudes and habits is needed. From Tibetan Buddhism;

1) Lojong aka "Mind Training" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong

2) Tonglen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonglen
If Russia bombed people (or e.g. caved in a building where civilians could be expected to inhabit and thereby die in the collapse) then it would be terrorism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike
Just got my Mac mini, can't wait to code swift for the first time! How did you learn? What resources?
I am not saying that, but my favorites are Communications of the ACM, NEJM, and PLoS One. If you do want to read peer-reviewed papers, probably reading them by journal is not among the most productive ways to read them (though in CS there are some conferences whose proceedings are worth perusing regularly, such as SIGGRAPH); instead, I recommend following particular authors and following bibliographic links. Often Wikipedia articles are the best starting point.
I don't anymore and when I did the code didn't change much. But I haven't seen anyone mentioning processing the AST. Some things would break between changes, but if the language the code uses has a good AST traversal library, you could assign your notes to parts of the tree rather than source code locations, falling back to source code locations when that fails. It would still need manual maintenance, but would at least be less fragile than using solely line locations.
I do red team, if I see a server with 20+ ports I'll immediately assume it's a honeypot and will stop scanning it. If you are part of a blue team you WANT them to waste time, not instantly know it's a honeypot, that's what I meant for specifically this software.
Your Linux based docker containers can work on all major platforms, how is that not a portable experience?
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus with rollable screen leaks
> Extroverts don't understand this concept of limited capacity for socialization.

I think there's gotta be a middle ground where someverts are more tolerant of socializing for long periods of time. It still becomes draining, but they don't have some terrible allergic reaction. More like just mild sneezing!
Ask HN: Favorite essays, tech talks, books, etc. of 2024?
I also find that switching between introvert and extrovert mode takes effort. If you like being in an introvert mode, then in social environments you move a lot of times between both modes (because you fall back into introvert mode, until someone starts talking to you), and this can be tiring.
"The rest is history" is a fantastic show, and definitely not sensationalized. Also San Carlins show is great.
It can run on zLinux, but that's not as interesting as z/OS.
Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tool like Ollama
Apparently he swam over the Caspian Sea and made it to Azerbaijan.

> The swim covering 179 miles (288 km) was achieved in 31 days as part of his global expedition on foot.

With the help of Azerbaijan's coast guard and some swimmers. Wow!
I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can't stop
Click the link, open the backend tab, and look where it says "Only running UI code when there are animations or input."

Then you won't have to waste cycles deciding which random internet comment from a stranger to believe
On a PCIe socket, the first part is power and the rest is data. Their product photos show a card that only touches the power pins.
More experiments here: http://david.li/
Absolutely! The labels some may seek to feel a deeper sense of community and understanding end up becoming shackles.

People don't need to just be one thing. We are fluid. And can and should have opinions and stances that wane over time.
Yes it's because uBlock works best with manifest v2 and Chrome now requires v3. You can use skipvids.com for youtube
> It's probably the most ill informed post I've ever seen on the front page of HN.

Ever seen so far
Articles like this are (IMHO) ableist and come from an extremely neurotypical perspective. "Just practice social skills" to me is like teling depressed people "just go outside and touch grass".

There's not a single mention of ADHD or autism in here. My own understanding of this has evolved over the years.

The first stage is to understand introversion / extroversion as simply to not like / like socializing, people, large groups or whatever. This is a shallow and pretty inaccurate understanding, one many people such as myself chafe against. I consider myself an introvert but like certain social activities so these labels never seem to quite fit.

The next stage is the "social battery" understanding of introversion / extroversion. That is, social activities will either drain or charge your "social battery".

After this you start to ask questions like "why does X drain my social battery?" and "what does draining a social battery really mean?" and you start to realize you're still describing symptoms, not causes.

The key insight is that something drains your social battery because you're masking [1]. So-called extroverts don't need to mask. So-called introverts do.

Yes, you can get better at following social norms and develop coping strategies for large groups, socializing with strangers, etc but all you're really doing is getting better at masking. That can be useful because it can change how other people respond to you but it's a bit like telling a depressed person to "just smile".

[1]: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/behavio...
> // Sorry this is awful, we have to X but this was difficult because of Y

You don’t know how many times I’ve seen this with a cute little GitLens inline message of “Brian Smith, 10 years ago”. If Brian couldn’t figure it out 10 years ago, I’m not likely going to attempt it either, especially if it has been working for 10 years.
I feel like a lot of these debates boil down dealing with discomfort. We seem to be creating a society where everyone feels they have the right to not feeling stressed and uncomfortable. The danger to never feeling challenged is that you don't grow. You get stuck in a rut and everyone passes you by.

Part of dealing with discomfort is learning what your limits are. No one should put themselves in a situation with you have a breakdown. I find that a small amount of stress in my life is good and results in growth. But a huge amount is overwhelming which leads to burnout.
Resumes for Startups (2010)
While zoning restrictions can limit housing supply, the dramatic house price increases observed globally are better explained by monetary policy, particularly historically low interest rates. This is evidenced by simultaneous price increases across jurisdictions with vastly different zoning laws. When interest rates fell to historic lows, monthly mortgage payments became more affordable, leading to increased buying power and competition across all markets - even those with flexible zoning. The rapid price changes following interest rate shifts, compared to the gradual effect of zoning policies, demonstrates that monetary policy is the dominant factor in recent price trends.
My intersect of "people I like" and "people I have to spend time with" is likely smaller than yours.
Back in the before time my computer science exams¹
that lasted around 6h-7h
We had to write the code requested with pen and paper
and no reference sources or anything else.

and yes the code were to be written with the expectation that
whoever graded the paper could run it and it would work.
(I dont think anyone every tried typing it in)., and
none of the questinos requred short answers.

(Well the ones where programming was a bit part of it.
Others were math, where again you hand wrote it and
you had no access to any reference books)
Preliminary investigation confirms Russian missile caused Azerbaijan Air crash
Local search with Ollama? Please share!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva
We came up with a decent product idea
2024's greatest hits on Air Street Press
No. Real history books must present evidence for their conclusions, and that evidence must be honest, not faked. They do not need to be correct, only corrigible. Correct and accurate information about things that happened does not rise to the level of being real history when it does not include evidence. Evidence is dependent on the form of media.

"Dramatized" is a euphemism for "faked". Once you've accepted "dramatized" evidence, accurate and correct information—though it can of course be illustrated in a "dramatized" way—inevitably get replaced by information that is completely false but more entertaining, such as ancient-aliens nonsense. Since the nature of the medium cuts viewers off from the evidence, they can't tell the difference between a narrative supported by evidence and a narrative completely contrary to all the evidence.

"Dry" means "badly written". History does not need to be badly written to be correct or to be corrigible; the article points out that well-written history used to be common. But it does more or less need to be written.
Why Learn Common Lisp?
Zoning is a scapegoat that allows us to avoid thinking critically about the "fuzzier" complexities behind housing prices. Of course it may be a primary driver of rising prices in some areas, but I think it's simple-minded to assume (and misleading to claim) that zoning is the cause of high prices in general.
No, FreeBSD is performant as ever.
The "Who" – Understanding AI Identity in IAM
I mostly don't see the point in these terms anymore. They were presumably created to categorize people but suck at it because nobody agrees where the boundaries of the category are, and the resolution on the term is so low for how many domains of personality it touches.
I dumped Haskell specifically because of its enormous cognitive load. All my time and energy went into Haskell and its endless quirks, leaving nothing for the business problem and its stakeholders.